Category «Libraries»

Primary Research Group Has Published Law Library Benchmarks

Press release: “The study presents data from a survey of 84 law libraries; data is broken out for law firm, university, government and private company law libraries, and by size of the library’s content budget. The study has approximately 300 tables of data summarizing a broad range of developments in law library policies regarding personnel …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Archivist for JFK Library Announces Launch of Huge Digital Library

AP reported that JFK archvist Allan Goodrich announced a huge digitization project to be completed by the end of 2007, which would provide web access to “48 million pages of documents, 400,000 photos and 1,200 hours of video..” NARA press release: “Twenty-nine years after participating in the formal groundbreaking of the Kennedy Presidential Library and …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Shift From Paper to Digital Libraries Offers New Preservation Challenges

Fragile digital data in danger of fading past history’s reach, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (6-7-06) “Many of the records that once allowed historians to study a society’s history — from personal correspondence to government documents — may be slipping, irretrievably, into the digital ether…compared to the sturdy format of paper and books, digital information is extremely …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Connecticut Librarians Challenging Constitutionality of Patriot Act Gag Speak Out

Following up on previous postings about Connecticut librarians gagged by the FBI’s use of the National Security Letter provision of the Patriot Act, news from an ACLU press conference on the identity of the librarians and their respective statements as follows: Barbara Bailey Peter Chase George Christian Janet Nocek

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation, Libraries, Patriot Act

LC Web Capture Project

“The Library of Congress preserves the nation’s cultural artifacts and provides enduring access to them. The Library’s traditional functions of acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the Congress and the American people to foster education and scholarship extend to digital materials, including Web sites…In 2004, the Library’s Office of Strategic …

Subjects: Blogs, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Librarian Mediated Search Best Option for Cancer Patients According to Study

From PERC: Patient Education Resource Center [U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center], “lists of information sourcesrelating to a specific cancer diagnosis or issue. The purpose is to help newly diagnosed patients and their loved ones find sources of information and support. The guides are not meant to be comprehensive, but rather to provide starting points for information …

Subjects: Internet, Libraries

New on LLRX.com

Gumshoe Librarian 2006, by Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina I. Pacifici Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed from the Internet Be Reclaimed?, by Susan Nevelow Mart Beyond Google and Yahoo: Advanced Search, by Tom Mighell and Sabrina I. Pacifici. CongressLine, by GalleryWatch.com – Congressional Scandals, Corruption and Misbehavior, by Paul Jenks Setting …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Marketing, RSS, Search Engines

Debate on Future of the Library Catalog

The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools, Final Report, March 17, 2006, prepared for the Library of Congress by Associate University Librarian Karen Calhoun of Cornell University (52 pages, PDF) A Critical Review of The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools, April 3, …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines